New & Noteworthy

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June 26, 2018

New this week:

CADDYSHACK By Chris Nashawaty. (Flatiron, $26.99.) A book-length look at the goofy, golf-themed 1980 cult classic, which catapulted the careers of its director, Harold Ramis, and three unlikely stars — Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray. Nashawaty also provides a snapshot of the era’s comedic landscape, with National Lampoon and “Saturday Night Live” on the rise. WHEN KATIE MET CASSIDY By Camille Perri. (Putnam, $25.) Two women find themselves seated across a boardroom table — one a Kentucky transplant to Manhattan, the other a brash lawyer wearing a men’s suit. This unconventional meet-cute launches Perri’s romantic comedy of a novel. WE DON’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE and THE WINTER FATHER By Andre Dubus. (David R. Godine, paper, $18.95 each.) These two volumes bring together the fiction of Andre Dubus, one of the 20th century’s most gifted short story writers, who, like Raymond Carver, became a master of the form by writing about ordinary, often struggling men and women. A third volume, including previously uncollected stories, will be published in the fall. ANY MAN By Amber Tamblyn. (Harper, paper, $15.99.) In her debut novel, Tamblyn, an actress and poet, offers a new perspective on sexual violence by casting a woman as a serial predator. THE MONARCHY OF FEAR By Martha C. Nussbaum. (Simon & Schuster, $25.99.) The acclaimed moral philosopher turns her attention to our current political divide and the role of emotion in fueling so much of it. At the root of the resentment of immigrants, Muslims, cultural elites and others, she says, is a deep sense of powerlessness.

& Noteworthy

In which we ask colleagues at The Times what they’re reading now.

“I was so riveted and moved by Susan Faludi’s IN THE DARKROOM that I bought it for several friends. Faludi’s father, a photographer, left the family when Susan was a teenager; 25 years later, in 2004, he writes to her about his sex reassignment surgery at the age of 76 and his move back to his native Hungary. Her book describes how she grew closer to him and examines what shaped her father’s views on family, masculinity and gender. I especially liked reading the dialogue from conversations she has with him. She acts as daughter and journalist. It is sometimes said that you can never clearly see your parents but Faludi arrives at an illuminating portrait of her father’s ‘many oppositions.’ Since the best memoirs are also cultural histories, you also get sharp renderings of the suburban America that shaped her and the Budapest that her father’s assimilated, well-to-do Jewish family fled.”